MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee School of Engineering announced on Monday, March 3, a new $125 million campaign that will include a state-of-the-art Engineering Innovation Center, School of Advanced Computing and a goal to become the national leader in the education of applied artificial intelligence.

The Next Bold Step campaign will support the Robert D. Kern Engineering Innovation Center with hopes to break ground in the second half of 2025. The building will be a four-story, 97,000-square-foot academic building with several spaces for supporting collaboration across all disciplines. There will be a focus on integrating AI and machine learning into all of MSOE’s engineering programs.

The building will also include a new Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence Education, allowing faculty, staff and students to incorporate AI into their multidisciplinary programs and projects.

The campaign also is adding the Dwight and Dian Diercks School of Advanced Computing, a school to allow AI and machine learning to be incorporated into all programs that the school offers.

The new center will be built on the southwest corner of Milwaukee and State streets, replacing a university parking lot. It will also connect to the current buildings Allen-Bradley Hall of Science and the Fred F. Loock Engineering Center.

Further goals of the campaign are scholarships, funding faculty and academic programs, student support programs and keeping operations running smoothly.